Re: [lojban] Proposal: Kill (pe'a) all syllabic consonants

[Pierre Abbat <phma@bezitopo.org>]

On Monday, June 01, 2015 05:03:03 Spheniscine wrote:
> Simply put, systematically replace all syllabic consonants /S/ with /yS/.
> *la gocti* *no'u* *la cirko* ran some tests on the current JVS *zi'evla*
> list and found no word-boundary resolution problems. This would affect all
> *cibyfu'ivla* that used a syllabic consonant hyphen, although some *na'e
> cibyfu'ivla je zi'evla* would also be affected, like {iklki}

If a brivla contains 'y', that 'y' is always an interfix at a morpheme 
boundary. Changing all syllabic consonants to /yS/ would break that rule. If 
the syllabic consonant happens to be 'm' (which is never an interfix itself), 
this could cause problems with analyzing into morphemes because there are 
initial clusters beginning with 'm'. Thus a zi'evla "brodmrastu" would become 
"brodymrastu", which is a lujvo.

There is no ambiguity in "anlnda". It is "an,ln,da", because "nln" is not a 
possible syllable.

Pierre
-- 
ve ka'a ro klaji la .romas. se jmaji

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